04-27-2014, 04:24 PM
On the way home the other night, my wife and I stopped to watch the following in downtown Canon City:
Four UP diesels came clanging through town towing 3 tank cars and one battered empty gondola.
The proceeded to switch the three tank cars onto a yard siding, and then backs the gon onto the Canon Quarry (a former brick factory and now a rock and gravel supply) siding. That's all four diesel units backing the empty gon.
They then proceeded to head back east the way the came. :?
No explanation was offered by the two ground crew handling the switches for needing three locos too many or such a simply task.
Four UP diesels came clanging through town towing 3 tank cars and one battered empty gondola.
The proceeded to switch the three tank cars onto a yard siding, and then backs the gon onto the Canon Quarry (a former brick factory and now a rock and gravel supply) siding. That's all four diesel units backing the empty gon.
They then proceeded to head back east the way the came. :?
No explanation was offered by the two ground crew handling the switches for needing three locos too many or such a simply task.